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“I thought about my complicity all the time or not at all. My role in America’s joyless abundance.”

Poetry Poem Abundance Materialism Consumption Consumerism Complicity Joylessness

Author:H.R. Webster

“There’s something so joyless about the left these days,’ Tony continued, ‘so forbidding and self-denying. And policing. No one’s having any fun, we’re all just sitting around scolding each other for doing too much or not enough--and it’s like, what kind of vision for the future is that? Where’s the hope? Where’s the humanity? We’re all aspiring to be monks when we could be aspiring to be lovers.”

Left Democrats Progressives Liberals Scolding Self Denial Joylessness

Book:Birnam Wood

Source: Birnam Wood

“At the great feast there is always the outsider, the stranger to joy... [from 'Morning']”

Book:The First Four Books of Poems

Source: The First Four Books of Poems